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To our native Dogwood are to be added other flowering trees of rare and beautiful varieties, e. g. the exquisite Japan - ese flowering Apple, Peach and Cherry. But among the flowering trees, the chief glory belongs to the Magnolias, of which we have five native varieties and others chiefly Japanese and Chinese.
Our evergreens-in great and bewildering variety-come from all parts of the world, from Maine, from Oregon, from the Colorado Canons, from the slopes of the Himalayas. They cannot be matched by any similar collection on earth.
Two specimens of Primaeval Oaks still stand, one in State street and one in the Hicks place, on Whitestone Avenue. They belong to the same group as the old Fox
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Oaks. The old Oak that, until two years ago, stood in the middle of Parsons Avenue, was estimated by the late Prof. Asa Gray, in 1872, to be about six hundred forty years old.
IX TITLES OF BOOKS
QUOTED, OR REFERRED TO, IN THIS HISTORY.
[The many other books "consulted" do not appear in this list. ]
History of the State of New York, John R. Brodhead 2 vols., New York, 1859, 1871.
History of New Netherland, E. B. O'Callaghan, 2 vols., New York.
Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, E. B. O'Callagan, Editor, 14 vols., Al- bany 1856-1883.
Representation of New Netherland, Adriaen Von der Donck, 1650. Translated by Henry C. Murphy, 1849.
History of Long Island, Benjamin F. Thompson, 2 vols., 1843.
Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, Albany.
Massachusetts Historical Collections, 41 vols., Boston, 1806-1871.
Documentary History of New York, E. B. O'Callaghan, 4 vols., New York, 1850.
The Annals of Newtown, James Riker, Jr., New York, 1852.
New England History, Chas. W. Elliott, 2 vols, New York, 1857.
History of New England, J. G. Palfrey, 5 vols., Bos- ton, 1858.
Newes from America, John Underhill, London, 1638.
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Flushing Past and Present, Rev. G. Henry Mandeville, Flushing, 1860.
Early Long Island, Martha Bockee Flint, New York, 1896.
A Brief Description of New York, Daniel Denton, London, 1670.
Journal of George Fox, Philadelphia, 1832.
Long Island Antiquities, Gabriel Furman.
Register of New Netherland, E. B. O'Callaghan, Al- bany, 1865.
Quakers on Long Island and in New York, Henry Onderdonk Jr.
Quakers of Hempstead, Henry Onderdonk Jr.
New York. The Planting and Growth of the Empire State, Ellis H. Roberts, Boston and New York, 1887.
Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times, Sidney George Fisher, Philadelphia, 1898.
A Journal of Travel from New Hampshire to Caratuck, on the Continent of North America, George Keith, London, 1702.
History of St. George's Parish, Flushing, J. Carpenter Smith, Flushing, 1897.
Antiquities of the Parish Church, Jamaica, including Newtown and Flushing, H. Onderdonk, Jr., Jamaica, 1880.
The Friends' Library, 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1839.
History of New York During the Revolutionary War, 2 vols., Thomas Jones, New York, 1879.
Genealogical Notes of the Colden Family, E. P. Purple, New York, 1873.
Biographies of Francis Lewis and Morgan Lewis, Julia Delafield, 2 vols., New York, 1877.
The American Revolution, John Fiske, 2 vols., New York, 1896.
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American Archives, 9 vols., Washington, 1837-1851.
The Empire State, B. Lossing, New York.
Journals of the Provincial Congress, 2 vols., Albany, 1842.
History of Queens County, New York, 1882.
Queens County in Olden Times, H. Onderdonk, Jr., Jamaica, 1865.
Documents and Letters to Illustrate Revolutionary Inci- dents of Queens County, H. Onderdonk, Jr., New York, 1846. Second Series, Hempstead, 1884.
Gazetteer of the State of New York, Thos. G. Gordon, Philadelphia, 1836.
Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, 4 vols., Albany, 1865-1868.
Orderly Book of the Maryland Loyalists Regiment Kept by Capt. Caleb Jones, Brooklyn, 1891.
Letters of the Brunswick and Hessian Officers During the American Revolution, Albany, 1891.
B. F. Steven's Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, 25 vols., London.
A History of the People of the United States, John Bach McMasters, 5 vols., (5th unpublished), New York, 1892-1895.
History of the City of New York, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb and Mrs. Burton Harrison, 3 vols., New York.
Diary of George Washington, Richmond, 1861.
Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenberg, Anne Ayres, New York, 1881.
Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, Bvt. Maj. Jacob Roemer, L. A. Furney, Editor, Flushing, 1897.
Manuscript History of the Society of Friends in Queens County, H. Onderdonk, Jr. In the Archives of the West- bury Meeting.
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Minutes of Friends' Meetings, Previous to 1805, In the Archives of the Sixteenth street Meeting House, N. Y.
Minutes of Friends' Meetings, since 1805, In the Ar- chives of the Westbury Meeting.
Historical Collections of the State of New York, J. W. Barber, New York, 1851.
INDEX
This Index contains references to the notes and the Ap- pendix, as well as to the History.
A
Additional Notes, 259
African Macedonian Church, 174
Agricultural Society, 193
Alien and Sedition Laws, 169
Andros, Governor, 76, 81, 82
Applegate, Thomas, 15 Areson, B., robbed, 148 Art Class, 208 Artists' Exhibition, 213 Athletic Club, 211 Attractions of Flushing, 212 Aspinwall, John, 108, 111 . B
Banks, 211 Baptist Church, 200; Pastors of, 201
Baptist Church, African, 212
Barclay, Rev. Henry, 136
Barstow, Dr. J. W., 193, 269 Bayside, 199, 227 Beacons during the Revolution, 134 Beddard, Thomas, 15 Beekman, Gerard G., 264 Bishop, William, seditious words of, 63
Block, Adrian, enters Flushing Bay, 5 Bloomer, Rev. Joshua, 111, 130 Board of Education, 194, 223 Bownas, Samuel, arrested, 90 Bowne, John, 43, 44 Bowne, Joseph, 125 Bowne House, the, 71 Bowne, Willet, tortured, 148
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Bradford, William, 90
British troops enter Flushing, 131; occupy Flushing, 132- 153
Bridge over Flushing Creek, 172
Burling, William, publishes anti-slavery address, 94
Business Men's Association, 211
C
Cabot, Jean and Sabastian, 1
Census, in 1698, 85; at different times, 227
Charter of Flushing, 14, 231; enlarged, 23; restricted, 42; exemplified, 169
Charter of New York modified, 221-223
Christiaensen, Hendrick, 4
Christmas customs, 57
Church of England, under the Duke's Laws, 61; established in New York by law, 79; introduced into Flushing, 98
Clarence, Prince of, in Flushing, 149
Clinton, Gov. George, in Flushing, 102
Coal mines, sought for, 260
Court records, extracts from, 260
Coin, scarcity of, 17
Colden, Cadwallader, 114-116; connection with Stamp Act, 121; writes to Earl of Dartmouth, 123
Colden, David, 116, 145
Colden, Cadwallader David, 117
Colgan, Rev. Thomas, 100, 105
College Point, 182, 226
Combination of English towns, 50
Commodities of Long Island, 259
Committee Men, 123, 125, 131
Confiscation Act, 162
Congregational Church, 196; Pastors of, 197 Connecticut, trouble with, 48-54
Conscience, freedom of, among the Puritans, 14; secured by the Charter of Flushing, 14, 18
Consolidation with New York opposed, 220-224
Constitution, U. S., adoption of celebrated, 164 Cornell, Richard, 49
Cornbury Bay, 261 · p.61 Cornbury, Lord, 87
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INDEX
Corsa, Col. Isaac, 106 Courts, Queens County, 164 Cowperthwaite, Hugh, 45 Customs during Dutch supremacy, 57
D
Davis, Lieut. William, 31
Debts, imprisonment for, 157
Denton, Daniel, description of Long Island, 68
Depredations by soldiers, 145-148
Dongan, Governor, 77; Flushing gives a farm to, 78 Douglaston, 227
Downing, Benjamin W., 267
Doughty, Rev. Francis, 12, 14, 20-22, 24, 32
Doughty, Elias, 24; brings suit for his father's salary, 62 Duke's Laws, 61
Dutch, liberal government of, 14; recapture New York, 73; administer oath in Flushing, 74; customs of, 57 Dutch, Laurence, 15
Dutch Reformed Church, ride Reformed Dutch Church
Dress at time of Independence, of gentleman, 156; of lady, 156; of farmer, 157; of laborer, 157
Drisius, Rev. Samuel, on religious condition of Flushing, 37
E
Eagles, John, 125 Easter customs, 57 Education, encouraged by Friends, 92 Electric railroads, 217
Episcopal Church, vide. Church of England and St. George's Church.
Exemplification of Patent, 169
English, the, not trusted, 30, 34
English towns seek alliance with Connecticut, 49; Com- bination of, 50
Evacuation of New York, 162
F
Fair, County, at Flushing, 193, 197, 199 Fairchild, Ezra and E. A., 191 Farret, James, 10, 20 Farrington, Thomas, 15
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Farrington, John, 45
Farrington, Edward, 41
Feake, Tobias, 41, 259
Ferry-boats, 151, 262
Field, Robert, 15
Field, Elizabeth, 28
Field, Benjamin, 45
Firman, Robert, 16
Fire Department, 213
Fires, 262-63
Fisher, Edward, 49
Flushing, origin of name, 15; limits of town, 16; called Newarke, 50; a refuge during the Revolution, 125, 126; condition during the Revolution, 132-153; in 1836, 184; village incorporated, 184; boundaries of village, 185, 198, 207; condition in 1851, 196; condition in 1897, 212
Flushing Female Association, 175
Flushing Guard, 202
Flushing Battery, 203; officers of, 203; returns home, 204
Flushing Journal, 188
Flushing Times, 189
Flushing Seminary, 211
Flushing Village Association, 218-224
Flushing Jockey Club, 219
Flushing Female College, 191
Flushing Institute, 180, 182; becomes St. Ann's Hall, 187; re-established. 191
Flushing Hospital, 208-211
Forrester, Andrew, 20
Fox, George, visits Flushing, 69
Fox Oaks, 70 Franklin, Morris, 265 Free Schools, 175, 194
Friends, arrive in Flushing, 39; laws against, 40; early meetings of, 44; why persecuted, 45-47; fined, 77, 80; dis- sipated men personate, 83; Meeting-house, 84, 94; influ- ence on education, 92; anti-slavery agitation, 93, 94 ; dis- cipline of, 96, 97, 261, 263; Meeting-house during Revolu- tion, 132; suffering of, 132, 255; efforts to free slaves, 152; Orthodox and Hicksite, 181; celebrate 200th anniversary of Meeting-house, 224
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French and Indian War, 105 French, neutral, 106 Funeral customs, 57
G
Garretson, Matthew, Bay of, 227, 231 Gas Company, 214 Gill, Roger, Journal of, 85 Good Citizenship League, 211 Gordon, Rev. Patrick, 98
Government, honest, 218
H
Hamilton, Col. Archibald, 112-114; house burned, 149 Hamilton Hall, 173 Hamilton Rifles, 202 Half-Moon, enters N. Y. Bay, 4 Hall, Thomas, 23 Hallet, William, 38 Hark, William, 22, 23
Hart, Edward, 16, 35, 41
Hartford Treaty, 48 Hashagen, John D., 219
Hawks, Dr. Francis, 187 Hedger, James, 146 Hessian Fly, 151 Henderson, John, 209 Heyes, Thomas, 23 Hicks, John, 16, 23, 260 Hicks, Thomas, 124 Hodgson, Robert, 39 Holland and the English Parliament, 29 Hoffman, Miss S. O., School of, 211 Hoffman, Judge Murray, 264 Honeyman, Rev. James, 98 Hocd, Zacharias, 121 Hospital, Flushing, 208-211 Howe, General, before New York, 126 Hudson, seeks northwest passage, 3 Huguenots, 43
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Indians, give title to Queens Co., 11; war with, 12, 13; their character, 17; to be employed in war, 30; trouble inhabitants of Flushing, 36, 48; attempts to buy land from, 53; last deed, 79 Institute, vide. Flushing Institute.
Inhabitants in 1698, list of, 237
Ives Law, 219
J
Jones, Judge, 118, 145 Journalism, 188-190
K
Keith, George, 88, 98
Kieft, Governor, 11
Kyle's Institute, 211
L
Lawrence, John, 15, 16, 23
Lawrence, William, 15, 16, 63
Lawrence, John W., 266
Lawrence, Mrs. William, burns contract with Rev, F. Doughty, 62
Leisler, John, Flushing complains against, 83
Leverett, Capt. John, 31
Lewis, Francis, 117-120, 135
Lewis, Francis, Jr., 120
Lewis, Morgan 120
Library Association, 214
Lincoln, Charles R., 188, 189
Little Neck, 227; called Cornbury, 261
Long Island, description of, 68; opposed to Congress, 122
Long Island Sound, explored by Block, 5; by Dermer, 5 Lovelace, Governor Francis, 67; in Flushing, 72
Lovelace, Governor John, in Flushing, 99
Loyalists, 131, 136, 163
Ludlow, Gabriel G., 163
Lutheran Church, 212
M
Macdonald, Dr. J., 193 Macdonald, Gen. Allan, 193 Magistrates of Flushing, 56
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Manners and Customs at close of the Revolution, 154-161 Manufacturing establishments, 212
Marriage laws, 56, 77 Marriages in Flushing, 136
Marston, John, 15
Matinecock Indians, 16
May, Cornelius Jacobson, 8
Meeting-house, Quaker, 84, 94, 95, 132
Megapolensis, Dominie, and the Indians, 13; on the relig- ious condition of Flushing, 37
Methodist Church, African, and Pastors, 174
Methodist Church and Pastors, 177, 178
Milliard, Michaell, 16
Militia of Flushing humbled, 61
Minister, Reformed, 28, 42; inhabitants refuse to support, 259
Mitchell, Ernest, 219 Money, 158
Moore, Mrs. Lambert, 264 Muhlenberg, Dr. William A., 179
Muster Roll, 127
N
Napier, Capt. and Mrs., 139 Negroes in Flushing, 176
New Albion, 10
New Amsterdam, 5; becomes New York, 59
New England, trouble with, 10, 31, 48, 49
New Netherland, 7, 8
Newarke, Flushing named, 50
New Year's customs, 57
New York, discovered by French, 2; claimed by English, 8; ceded to English, 59 Nicolls, Governor, 59; visits Flushing, 63; leaves for Eng- land, 67
Noble, William, 41
O
Officials of Flushing, 55, 56, 216 P Patent of Flushing, ride Charter Patent, each landholder required to apply for, 42
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Patentees, 15, 16
· Patroon, power of, 9 Pigeon, William, 16 Pinfold, Edmund, 125
Pipe-clay, 262
Plowden, Sir Edmund, 10
Population of town and village, 268
Post-office, first, 178
Post-rider, 155
Poyer, Rev. Thomas, 99
Prince, William, Nursery of, 137
Prince, L. Bradford, 215 Prices, in 1645, 19; during the Revolution, 138 Prisons, 157
Privateers, 35, 138
Prosperity of Flushing, 19, 28
Provisions in Flushing in 1711, 249
Public Schools, 194, 195
Puritans object to the Dutch's occupying New York, 9
Q
Quakers, vide Friends, Quebec, capture of, celebrated, 107
Queens County Loyalists, 123-125
R
Railroads, 197, 204, 205
Reconstruction, 162
Records of town burned, 167
Roemer, Major Jacob, 203, 204
Roesingh, Anton, 210
Reformed Dutch Church established by law, 74; organized in Flushing, 187; Pastors of, 188
Religious condition of Flushing, 37, 107, 110, 139
Remonstrance against religious persecution, 40; signers of, 235
Representative government desired 67
Revolutionary War, Flushing in the, 121-153 Roman Catholic Church, cide St. Michael's Church,
Robinson, Beverly, 136, 140 Rodman, John, 45, 86, 263 Rodman, Thomas, 125
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Sanford, Nathan, 193 Sanford Hall, 192 Saint Ann's Hall, 187
Saint George's Church, 108, 199, 225; Rectors of, 200
Saint John's, N. B., settled by Queens Co. Loyalists, 163
St. Joseph's Academy, 201
St. Michael's Church, 179, 199; Pastors of, 200
Saint Paul's College, 182
Saint Thomas's Hall, 187, 191, 201
Saull, Thomas, 15 Sautell, Henry, 16
Scott, Capt. John, 50-52, 54
Schools, 159, 186, 194, 195, 211
Schroeder, Dr. Frederick, 187
Schermerhorn, F. A., 210
Schuler, Hans, 211 Seabury, Rev. Samuel, 107, 110, 111
Senff, Charles H., 210
Sessions House, tax for, 66
Settlement of Flushing, 15
Sheriffs of Flushing, 55
Skidmore, Samuel, 147
Slaves, first importation of, 35
Slavery, Indian, negro anc. white, 55; encouraged by Friends, 94; in Flushing, 137; Friends oppose, 152; aboli- tion of in New York, 176
Smith, Col. Joshua, recruits for regiment of, 128
Smith, Dr. J. Carpenter, 225
Society, condition of in 1664, 55-58; at close of the Revolu- tion, 154-160 Sports during Revolution, 134 Stamp Act, 121
Stages to New York, 173
Steam-boats to New York, 179
Stiles, Thomas, 15 Sterling, William Earl of, 10, 19; his claims settled, 59 Story, Thomas, Journal of, 86
Streets improved, 218
Strong, Dr. James, 266
Stuyvesant, Peter, 30; character, 34; persecutes Friends, 40, 41; rebuked, 45; visits Flushing, 53; death of, 60
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T
Talman, John, 124, 125
Tavern in Fushing, 28
Taxes, 77
Tithes, 19, 35, 49
Thanksgiving Day, 76
Thorne, William, 16, 23
Thorne, Thomas, 125, 130
Thompson, Col. Benjamin, 149
Tom, Nathanael, 124, 128
Tories, vide Loyalists,
Town meetings forbidden, 42
Townsend, Henry, shelters Friends, 39
Townsend, John, 15, 23
Treadwell, Mr., 108, 110
Trees in Flushing, 269
Troops in Flushing, during Revolution, 140-143
Trustees of the Village, 216
U
Underhill, Captain John, Schout of Flushing, 23; account of, 25-28; guilty of sedition, 32; his address, 33; turns against the Dutch 34; letter of, 43; Deputy Sheriff of North Riding, 62 Union Hall, 168
United Workers, 211
Urquhart, Rev. William, 98
V
Van Beyern, Anneke, 259 Van Brugge, Carel, 73
Vanderbilt, John, 131
Vanderbilt, Jeremiah, 166
Van Wyck, Cornelius, 131
Verrazzano, Jean de, 2
Village Association, 218-224
W
Wampum, 17, 18 War of Rebellion, 202 Washington, George, in Flushing, 165, 167
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Water system, 206 Weed, John W., 221, 222
Weiser, Conrad, visits Gov. Clinton in Flushing, 103
Wentworth, Capt. Hugh: 101 Whitestone, 161, 226
Wickendam, William, 37 Willet, John, 125, 126
Willet, Thomas, 127
Willets Point, 226
Willets, Hannah, 210
Winthrop, Gov. John, in Flushing, 53
Wright, Capt. Jonathan, military company of, 258
Y Yorkshire, Flushing in North Riding of, 60; abolished, 78 Young Men's Christian Association, 211
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